Love the band and have been listening to them since '83 but watching Dave Gahan dance in those clips kinda made me a little ill. Maybe he & Dolores O'Riordan should have a contest to see who's onstage gyrations ruin a song more.

Not big into Depeche Mode (though they're one of two synth pop bands I find tolerable). I am, however, impressed that they're releasing this footage for free instead of trying to make a quick cash grab out of it (not that I'd blame them if they did, mind you)

The thing about Depeche Mode was that, unless you lived in a big city like LA or NY where they had an alternative music scene, you didn't hear their stuff on the radio back then. Their fans where made by word of mouth. Yet despite that, they could sell out a concert tour as fast as any big named top 40 rock band around in those days.

Funny little anecdote, there was no alternative station in Dallas when this tour came, a local top 40 station sponsored the show. One of the DJ's came out on stage before the show and announced the stations name and call letters, the entire audience literally booed him until he shut up and left the stage. Couldn't here a single word he said.

ReapTheChaos:The thing about Depeche Mode was that, unless you lived in a big city like LA or NY where they had an alternative music scene, you didn't hear their stuff on the radio back then. Their fans where made by word of mouth. Yet despite that, they could sell out a concert tour as fast as any big named top 40 rock band around in those days.

Funny little anecdote, there was no alternative station in Dallas when this tour came, a local top 40 station sponsored the show. One of the DJ's came out on stage before the show and announced the stations name and call letters, the entire audience literally booed him until he shut up and left the stage. Couldn't here a single word he said.

I grew up in the back ass end of Michigan and heard plenty of Depeche Mode on the radio in the 80s and 90s.

isamudyson:Love the band and have been listening to them since '83 but watching Dave Gahan dance in those clips kinda made me a little ill. Maybe he & Dolores O'Riordan should have a contest to see who's onstage gyrations ruin a song more.

/need a few drinks to forget what I just saw

Have you never seen "101"? I'm surprised he doesn't need a couple of hip replacement surgeries by now.

Snapper Carr:Not big into Depeche Mode (though they're one of two synth pop bands I find tolerable). I am, however, impressed that they're releasing this footage for free instead of trying to make a quick cash grab out of it (not that I'd blame them if they did, mind you)

That's probably because there aren't enough people willing to pay for a recording of a Depeche Mode concert.

in some stereo magazine about a decade ago, DA Pennebaker discussed this film, saying that there was a rumor of a multitracked stereo, DVD quality, multi-cam film of the Rose Bowl show but he'd never seen it.

uhhh........because Dodger Stadium is so very, very far from Pasadena....

max_pooper:Snapper Carr: Not big into Depeche Mode (though they're one of two synth pop bands I find tolerable). I am, however, impressed that they're releasing this footage for free instead of trying to make a quick cash grab out of it (not that I'd blame them if they did, mind you)

That's probably because there aren't enough people willing to pay for a recording of a Depeche Mode concert.

Yeah except for the people in the US who have bought over 5 million Depeche Mode Concert dvd's huh?

Scored some tics to check em out here in Leipzig in June. Can't farking wait. Saw them in Austin a few years ago and they put on a hell of a show. Ze Germans love DM. Can't tell ya how many cars I see with giant DM stickers on their rear windshields.

I was always boggled why they didn't film the Violator tour...NItzer Ebb opening was 30 ways of awesome...there wasn't a single ass in a seat that night....so much fun, easily on of my top 5 shows of all time.

Uh, for those of you with a turntable and a real stereo (i.e. adults), the 8/4/90 Dodgers Stadium show has been available as a triple LP for at least a year now. IF you know where to look.....http://www.discogs.com/Depeche-Mode-Violator-Live/release/3281857

ReapTheChaosThe thing about Depeche Mode was that, unless you lived in a big city like LA or NY where they had an alternative music scene, you didn't hear their stuff on the radio back then.

Must depend on who you had as disc jockeys for your local radio stations.

It was on mainstream radio in Billings, Montana all the time in the 80s and 90s, particularly when Violator came out. I recall buying Music for the Masses specifically because I heard them on the radio and loved the music.